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retightened
verb
Past of retighten
Exact(1)
Colonel Wheelock retightened the quick-disconnect fitting and left the line in place before heading back to the station's airlock.
Similar(3)
One evening, however, a guard loosened the ropes for him, he said, and then returned at the end of his shift to retighten them.
Linander casually dropped a word to the wise: self-assembled furniture requires retightening over time.
Some economists warned that the Fed is waiting too long to prepare financial markets for a retightening of monetary policy.
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